Sunday Morning Shards #7
The “Rip Van Winkle” Edition
Editor’s Note: Sorry, ya’ll. Saturday off became Sunday became, hell is it Wednesday already? Hence this will be a pretty long edition of SMS. Feel free to skip around.
MSNBC is saying that Edwards won last night’s debate. Fox News thinks (no, really) it went to Cheney. CNN claims divided opinion What do you think?
Kerry of course ran away with the first debate like the proverbial dish did with the proverbial spoon.
Webloggers Neal Pollack and and Michele Catalano have their own presidential debate. It’s much funnier than the real thing (via Dave).
What fictional character would you like to date? Most women still say Mr. Darcy.
Are noncommercial news outfits practicing better journalism? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. They certainly seem to be enjoying themselves more (via Romanesko).
Molly Steenson points out that there is precisely one woman on the speakers docket at Web 2.0. And while were at it, exactly zero people of color. Oh and the registration fee is nearly $3000. If this is the “future of the web”, I think I’ve already been priced out of it.
Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger, is leaving the company he created (via Onfocus).
Memo to music companies. There are plenty of real musicians out there who don’t appreciate your hamhanded efforts to villify file sharing and turn fans into suspects. Fans are your lifeblood, remember?
Andre Torrez has a very funny list of expired domains for you.
I don’t really need to get into caffinated beer do I (via Justin)?
Please read “The Long Tail”, an article in Wired about how media and entertainment will be sold and marketed in the future (your media, whenever you want it, all the time). It’s brilliant, dead on and best of all, hopeful. I’ll have a much longer post about it later on.